Exclusive: Vox Lux and The Spectacular Now outfit Andrew Lauren Productions is lining up R-rated comedy movie Lucky Strikes, based on the racially charged 1945 G.I. World Series which took place in Germany just after the fall of the Nazis.
Chuck MacLean, writer of Showtime’s upcoming City On A Hill series, is writing the script, which will follow Jewish Major Leaguer Sam Nahem’s efforts to put together an army baseball team that included two Negro Leaguers in an effort to antagonize the purportedly discriminatory General Patton who put together an all-white team of G.I.’s. The match-up was the first time since the creation of Major League baseball that black players competed on an equal playing field with whites.
The movie, currently in development, is inspired by a short segment from Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary.
Andrew Lauren Productions President DJ Gugenheim told us, “I was fascinated when I saw Ken Burns’ documentary.
Chuck MacLean, writer of Showtime’s upcoming City On A Hill series, is writing the script, which will follow Jewish Major Leaguer Sam Nahem’s efforts to put together an army baseball team that included two Negro Leaguers in an effort to antagonize the purportedly discriminatory General Patton who put together an all-white team of G.I.’s. The match-up was the first time since the creation of Major League baseball that black players competed on an equal playing field with whites.
The movie, currently in development, is inspired by a short segment from Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary.
Andrew Lauren Productions President DJ Gugenheim told us, “I was fascinated when I saw Ken Burns’ documentary.
- 8/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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